Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!